Stories from Robert BrowningG. Bell, 1882 - 228 páginas Prose adaptations of selected works of Robert Browning. |
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Admetus Æschylus Alcestis Anael answers Arezzo Aristophanes asks Asolo Athens Balaustion beautiful Berthold better bids blood Braccio brother Browning Browning's Caliph called Caponsacchi Caunus Cleves Colombe crown dare death Djabal Domizia dream Druses Duchess Emperor Euripides exclaims eyes face fancy father feel Florence Ghibelline girl give glory God's Goito Guelf Guendolen Guibert Guido Hakeem hand hear heart heaven honour husband Ibid keep Khalil King Lady leave live look Lord Loys Luria Mildred morning mother Mount Lebanon murdered never night Nuncio once palace Palma Pietro Pippa Passes Pisa poem poet Pompilia Pope praise Prefect priest Prince Puccio reward Rome sake Salinguerra says seemed shout silence singing song soon Sordello soul speak story Strafford sword tell thee Thorold thou thought told Tresham truth turn Valence Violante waiting whole woman words wrong
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Página 166 - You'll love me yet !—and I can tarry Your love's protracted growing : June reared the bunch of flowers you carry From seeds of April's sowing. ' I plant a heartfull now : some seed At least, is sure to strike— And yield—what you'll not pluck indeed, Not love, but,
Página 98 - Took sanctuary within the holier blue, . And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth
Página 222 - that nothing is what it calls itself, that faith and loyalty should turn out mere love ! And what may Berthold's love be ? I was wrong in distrusting the world so soon. The valley-level has its hawks, no doubt. May not the rock-top have its eagles, too
Página xxix - see All —The Great Before and After, and the Small Now, yet be saved by this the simplest lore, And take the single course prescribed before, As the king-bird with ages on his plumes Travels to die in his ancestral glooms.' * And we know, from the concluding paragraph, that the love which selects that course for man to follow in is
Página 158 - How—can this arm establish her above me, If fortune fixed her as my lady there, There already, to eternally reprove me ? ("Hist"—said Kate the queen; But " Oh "—cried the maiden, binding her tresses, " 'Tis only a page that carols unseen Crumbling your hounds their messes!") ' Is she wronged ?—To the rescue of her honour, My heart! Is she poor?^—What costs it to become a
Página 98 - To toil for man, to suffer or to die, — This is the same voice : can thy soul know change ? Hail, then, and hearken from the realms of help
Página 166 - you'll not pluck indeed, Not love, but, maybe, like. ' You'll look, at least, on love's remains, A grave's one violet : Your look ?—that pays a thousand pains. What's death ?—You'll love me yet
Página 166 - I plant a heartfull now : some seed At least, is sure to strike— And yield—what you'll not pluck indeed, Not love, but, maybe, like. ' You'll look, at least, on love's remains, A grave's one violet : Your
Página xxxvii - guarded calm, that guest May enter gladly, blow what wind there will,—- Boiled round with breakers, to no other cry ! All in one choros,—what the master-word They take up ?—hark ! '' There are no gods, no gods ! Glory to God—who saves Euripides
Página 194 - not triumph with the god ! Come ! But Djabal refuses, and demands, ' Why need there be more shame still? You have called this deed mine; it is so: I accept all its circumstances. How can I strive longer against my fate ? The past is past. Listen ! the argosies touch land ere now. Let them bear us to fresh scenes and happier skies.